The, "All Things English" thread

[Smitty-48]

Anyways, all this nonsense was brought to a halt, when one crazy German decided that the Pontfiex Maximus was actually working for Satan, and thus the North German Protestants were born.

[Smitty-48]

And that is basically the war, until the founding of the first modern liberal state, in 1688, when, again, the Dutch invade England, oddly enough.

[Smitty-48]

Truth is, is wasn't actually that odd, because the Dutch had in fact become the worlds first pre-modern liberal state, by way of the Wars of Spanish Succession, because the Dutch are in fact the Spanish Netherlands.

[Smitty-48]

And that's your post-Roman hegemonic order of succession in progress, from Spain and Portugal, to France, to Britain, and now America.

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Notice the arc, the more liberal, the more conducive to enterprise, the more free, the better, each one supplanting the next as it frees things up to another stage of competition.

Market forces are Darwinian forces.

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Notice that everywhere which was conquered by the Roman Catholic autocracies of Spain, Portugal and France, is a third world shit hole now. Notice that everything which was conquered by the British rule of law is the Kings of Virginia ruling the world as we know it.

One crazy German hippie altered the path of human civilization.

[Smitty-48]

Even as a Deist, I would say that one smacks of divine providence, Deus ex machina.

Darwinian or the God of the Hebrews, no matter, since for all intents and purposes, they are the same thing.

In a couple thousand years, Martin Luther could be the Messiah, Neil Armstrong his prophet.

[GloryofGreece]

Its a strange thing looking at the contrast between Anglos and Celts. In some ways Anglos should have lots in common with Germans who should have a lot in common with Celts too. Anglos enslaved and battered the Celts in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland for centuries. Its inspiring those people have managed to keep some semblance of a culture and language separate from their Anglo overlords.

[Speaker to Animals]

Anglos got ahead because we took in the best Jewish scientists who then gave us atomic bombs.

[GloryofGreece]

Anglos got ahead because we took in the best Jewish scientists who then gave us atomic bombs.

Reminds me of the Japanese around the War era wanted to keep a few Jews around for kind of like a little accounting army if you will. Say what you want but the Japs wanted to win.